Blood of Prokopius

JB of B/X Blackrazor has been meditating how to go “Advanced” from his usual B/X D&Ding. As seems always necessary in such endeavors is ...

I just ran across the story of the Fuke sect of Buddhism in Japan. The sect showed up during the Shogunate period. They were characterized b...

One of the most challenging things about doing a superhero game within the mechanical structure of D&D is the radically different assump...

Have you ever had a dream where you are in a game shop and you find a really interesting game that you want to buy but then wake up and real...

If I were to pick a fantasy author whose work I love and have read avidly but had the least impact on the way I play D&D, that author wo...

Ba5ic is going to be available as a POD through DriveThruRPG . . . after I fix some formatting problems that reared their ugly head once I g...

Thanks to everyone who commented and helped when I posted my (very) rough draft. I have gone through and re-read the entire book. I found a ...

As I noted in my last post , I am itching to sink my teeth into the D&D Essentials Kit in order to glean a simpler, cleaner version of 5...

I have a confession to make. When Robert Conley wrote up a blurb about the D&D Essentials Kit , I got really excited. In it I saw a vers...

In my extended absence from writing anything on my blog, I recently got this comment from David B. and it deserves its own post: Greetings...

One of the things I find fascinating about Chinese history is that it was a copper based economy and were very early adopters of paper money...

Any resemblance to the Real World is purely intentional

I not only want the Land of the Ten Clans to be Asian-flavored fantasy, but I also want it to be human-centric. Therefore, there will none o...

So, because I have been meditating on an asian-themed campaign world, I was obliged to draw a picture of a temple guard armed with a testubo...

One of my favorite aspects of the 1E version of Oriental Adventures was the weapon section. More than anything else, this was the flavor th...

Yesterday , I posted about using a Wu Xing diagram to map out relationships between factions in a campaign world. Here is the actual diagram...

When I am building a new campaign world, I especially like to create factions in sets of five. This allows me to plug factions into a Wu Xin...

One of my favorite poetic forms is the haiku. While tempting to see it as a very simple style of poetry where one need only come up with sev...

It came to my attention via Talysman over at The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms that there is a neural network web toy that will complete the te...

Steve Jackson Games was an important game company in my own formation as a gamer. I don't blog about that very often, because this blog ...